F18 beta experience under VM

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Mon Dec 3 07:10:27 UTC 2012


Getting to the first anaconda UI screen took a good 1-2 minutes. I 
wasn't sure if the VM had locked up as I had no indication of work being 
done. I can see people being frustrated with the wait and rebooting a 
few times and then posting on @test or @users that F18 won't install.

The custom partitioning manager, as mentioned on other threads, is 
confusing and buggy. The VM I tested with was already F18 alpha. 
Anaconda saw F18 already installed, and when I offered to reformat the 
existing partitions they disappeared from the F18 alpha list (not 
expecting that) and I found them under the F18 beta partitioning without 
a mount point. When I added a mount point the partition was duplicated 
so for example I had a 500MB ext4 partition and gave it a /boot mount 
point, which created a 500MB "Boot" ext4 partition leaving the original 
partition still on my screen.

Overall I think the NewUI is a step in the right direction even if it is 
a very rough, if not still in carbon form, diamond.

May I suggest that the "Date/Time" setting be moved to the "User 
Settings" page, which is during package installation? The root password 
setting looks lonely.

Michael


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